After watching friends play Fortnite on their iPhones for months, you may have downloaded the game the second it became available for your Android phone. I get it. But doing so could have put you at risk. As spotted by Android Central, Google has disclosed a huge vulnerability in Epic Games’ original Fortnite installer for Android, …
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If you use your Yahoo email account for online shopping, listen up. Oath, the Verizon-owned company that runs Yahoo’s web properties, is scanning your inbox for commercial emails, according to a report Tuesday from The Wall Street Journal. Verizon bought Yahoo last year. The emails would appear to include order confirmations and other such messages from online retailers. Oath uses …
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Facebook is doubling down on being an eco-friendly company. In a blog post on Tuesday, Facebook said it aims to use 100 percent renewable energy to power its global operations, including its data centers, by the end of 2020. It also vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent. In 2015 Facebook set a goal of supporting 50 percent …
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I’m feeling sentimental right now, and not just because I delivered my firstborn to college yesterday. (OK, that’s 99 percent of the reason. That was hard, you guys.) The other reason: I once spent $250 for a 250-megabyte hard drive. Because, you know, storage used to be expensive. But, holey moley, is it ever not expensive now. To wit: For …
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The last time we saw a phone leaked this throughly, it might have been when Apple left an iPhone in a bar. Not only have multiple Russian-speaking bloggers appear to have gotten their hands on the unreleased Google Pixel 3 XL months ahead of its expected October debut, not only have they spoiled practically every detail you’d want to know — read …
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I’m not here to give you fantasy football advice. My record as a fantasy football GM is checkered at best. In one league, I co-manage a team with my brother and we finish at or near the bottom of the standings each year. (Our lone title occurred back when Marshall Faulk was still playing; we recall his 1,000-yard rushing and …
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When Microsoft introduced the slimmer Xbox One S in 2016, one new feature didn’t get as much fanfare as it should’ve — a Bluetooth gamepad that can double as a controller for your tablets and phones. Only that gamepad didn’t necessarily work the way you’d think on Android. The buttons were assigned wrong. But XDA-developers reports that after two long …
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MoviePass, as a film subscription service, has one constant: change. Most people know it as the service that used to charge you $10 a month for unlimited movie tickets — until it didn’t. The service recently announced that the fee would jump to $15 a month, but then killed the unlimited plan altogether. Sound frustrating? Just be thankful you didn’t …
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It was just about a year ago that CNET’s Scott Stein called the Moto Z2 Force “a great phone… but no bargain.” Sure enough, Motorola’s modular marvel had a starting price of $730. What a difference a year makes. For a limited time, both Sprint and Best Buy are offering the Motorola Moto Z2 Force (64GB) for $120. See it …
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The slimy children’s goo known as oobleck, made from cornstarch and water, has inspired researchers to create a lithium-ion battery that is less prone to dangerous fires. Lithium-ion batteries are indispensable to our tech-filled lives — they power basically all of our electronic devices, from laptops to headphones to smartphones. Sadly, they can explode when damaged (as one major mobile manufacturer …
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